. >> joining us now is ohio's republican secretary of state, jon husted. where does the schedule stand now for early voting in ohio? >> well, early voting starts tuesday. for the first time ever, every single voter in the state receives an absentee ballot request. we expect on the first day of absentee voting on tuesday that a million ballots will go out to voters. they will have essentially five weeks and over 750 hours to vote from home. 230 hours over the course of five weeks to vote in person, plus all day on election day. it's really never been easier to vote in ohio. we expect everything will go quite smoothly. >> it was indeed easier in 2008 when people had that saturday, sunday and monday to vote. let's get to what you might have heard from the state senator and said this law is meant to suppress that vote. a lot of people voted in that weekend in 2008. what was wrong with the 2008 schedule that it had to be cut this year? >> do you know, frankly, the reason is because the boards of elections on a bipartisan basis actually asked for those three day